Carrera de fondo hacia arriba – Pila de rifles

Sigo explorando el tema de las pilas de barajado. Encontré esta en "The Cardist" de Ed Marlo, vol. 4. Esta técnica construye la pila en la parte inferior del mazo durante las barajadas, en lugar de en la superior. El problema con muchas técnicas de barajado que construyen en la parte superior es que, a menos que seas extremadamente hábil, acabarás ralentizando el barajado a medida que te acercas a la parte superior para asegurarte de tener la cantidad correcta de cartas controladas con los pulgares. Este cambio de velocidad ocurre en el punto de la baraja donde la atención de los demás jugadores es más aguda.

Sin mencionar lo difícil que es lograrlo. Como dice Marlo:

JEAN HUGARD en uno de sus libros de cartas ha descrito las subidas y bajadas
desde lo alto de la cubierta, en la que es necesario sujetar
Retroceda una cierta cantidad de cartas con cada pulgar para hacer la
riffle shuffle, al final del riffle… encontré esto
Muy difícil de lograr en ese momento con cualquier velocidad.
o regularidad en el rápido… FRANCAMENTE, TODAVÍA LO HAGO años después,

El Cardista, Vol. 4
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Moving Home Assistant from a virtual machine to dedicated hardware

I have been running home assistant on a generic Linux virtual machine using Oracle’s Virtualbox system for several years. It has worked pretty well for me, but I recently decided to purchase a mini pc and move home assistant to it.

In part what prompted this was finding a low cost mini PC that looked pretty good. $139.00 for an OUVISLITE Ιntel Celeron J4125 (Up to 2.7GHz), with 8GB DDR4 128GB M.2 SSD Mini Computer, 4K HDMI, Triple Display, Dual WiFi, BT4.2, and HTPC. For that price I figured “what the hell, let’s give it a try”.

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Restoring Home Assistant from Google Drive backup

Normally you restore home assistant to a previous backup using the backups stored locally that are listed under Settings -> System -> Backups. Just click on the backup you want to restore and a window pops up. Simple.

But if you want to restore to a version saved to Google drive you first have to copy the backup file from Google Drive to your local PC and then upload it to Home Assistant. Then the feature to upload a backup file is hidden under the “three dot” menu at the upper right of the backup page.

Open the menu, select “Upload backup”, and find the backup file you copied from Google Drive.

Using Aqara Vibrarion Sensor as Garage Door sensor

I was looking for a tilt sensor to tell me if my garage door was open or closed. The sensor had to work with Home Assistant and the only one I could find that looked simple and cheap was the Aqara Vibration sensor that had a tilt/orientation feature.

Unfortunately the feature was not one of the attributes that Home Assistant showed with the device which sent me down the rabbit hole of googling. Eventually I got it figured out and this article is to share my experiences.

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